Plagiolepis pygmaea

Plagiolepis pygmae
Plagiolepis pygmae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Plagiolepis
Species: P. pygmaea
Binomial name
Plagiolepis pygmaea
(Latreille, 1798)

Plagiolepis pygmaea is a species of ant in the genus Plagiolepis.[1] The species is widely distributed, from Portugal and the Canary Islands in the west, eastwards to Iran, Germany in the north and the Arabian peninsula in the south.[2]

Subspecies

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Plagiolepis pygmaea". AntCat. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. Boer, P. (2008). "Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923, a junior synonym of Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798) and the use of pigmentation as a discriminating character in ant taxonomy". Zoologische Mededelingen 82: 485–488.

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